Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, ARDRAHAN, CHURCH (CI)

Name: FAHY, RICHARD
Building: CO. GALWAY, ARDRAHAN, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1812a
Nature: 'Mr Fahy' paid balance of £33.3s.2d., 1812, for works apparently related to construction of steeple. (Lewis writes: 'The church was erected about 30 years since, by aid of a loan from the late Board of First Fruits, but was so indifferently built as to require a new roof...'.)
Refs: RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane);  Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 56.